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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
DairyiDg and crop Growing.
PhiladelDhia REGARD.

Dairying, though associated with the
growing of crops, is distinct occupation,
some dairymen buy nearly all the food
consumed by the stock, with the except
ion of pasturage; but the main object of
dairying should be to save all that is not
appropriated by the stock for the pro-
duction of beef, veal, milk or butter, and
In order to do this they must use the man
ure TO produce food another year. Thus,
under general farming, the dairy and
crop-growing are joint occupations, the
one dependent on the other. There are
hundreds of farmers who have gradually
grown wealthy at 5airying, though they
really derive but little more from the
milk and butter cold than the amount ex-
pended for food, as properly all crops
grown aid consumed by the stock should
be charged to them but the farmers in
crease of wealth is in the improvement
of his farm. If he does not derive large
profits from his sales, his land will be
gradually growing in fertility and its
value increasing. This is feature of
dairying that is often overlooked. The
manure does not receive that considera-
ton it deserves, but it is equal to GER
tain amount of expenditure made upon
the farm, and always returns more than
its equivalent. Where butter is the prin-
cipal product sold off the farm the loss
of fertilizing matter in the butter is al
most nothing, it consisting mostly of car
bon, which is not a valuable element of
the soil, and who. is supplied to plants
by the air. This is to infer, however,
That the skim milk is fed to pigs and sold
as pork. In which shapei it realizes a high
or price. When crops are grown and sold
on the farm, as is the case in wheat grow
ing, there Is constant drain of nitrogen,
potash and phosphorie acid, which must
be annually replaced, Or the farm will in
few years be incapable of longer pro-
ducing such crops; but when food is pur-
chased and fed to the dairy COWS it is
equivalent to the purchasing of the fer
tilizers also, as the whole remains on the
farm, in the shape of manure, unless sold
as milk, beef or veal, the feeding of PIGS.
however, being an additional occupation
The scince of farming consists in combin-
ing all occupations of that character With
view to earnings the farm and gradually
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08

the settlements. AS spring came they
turned to go southwark as usual, in q
long caravan, with their stolen horses
and cattle. Roca galloped around their
rear, and drove them night and day be-
fore him. When they reached the ditch
they became bewildered, for they could
not cross it, and after few days of
slaughter the remnant that survived sur
rendered, and were distributed through
the army as soldiers, while the women
we're sent into semi-slavery among the
ranchmen they had robbed. The dead
animals and men we're buried together in
the ditch, an ! there has been no further
annoyance from Indians on the frontier
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
increasing the field until the fullest ca
pacity be reached.
About Irrigation.
From the Rural New Yorker.

From the Rural New Yorker.
It will be noticed that but one of the
writer's on the "Drouth Lessons" makes
remedy for crops that perish for lack of
water. The one mention is to tho
effect that irrigation on rough farms is
impracticable market gardener in
Michigan who reports the loss of his en-
tire black berry crop and two-thirds of
his raspberries owing to the lack of
moisture, writes that if he had an artesian
we'll even though his surface is not fitted
for irrigation, he is satisfied that he
could make a man and team earn $40 per
day for three months hauling water in an
ordinary watering cart to sprinkle over
the rows. He spent $1,000 in vain
attempt to sink an artesian well. The
water came tantalizingly near the surface,
but refused to run over. Another year
by means of windmill and pump fair
supply of water will be obtained for
sprinkling purposes SO as to save at least
portion of the clop. few month ago
we told our readers of the system en-
ployed by Mr.. J. M. Smith, of Wisconsin.
The water is pumped into a tank, from
which iron pipes run below the ground in
all directions, carrying water to all parts
of the farm. These works cost consider
able money, but they have more than
paid for themselves. For marked gar
dens, where large crop is to be grown
on comparatively small tract of land, a
system Of artificial irrigation can be
made to pay. Experiment has abundant
ly proved that fact. Ga large farms,
except in cases where the farm is located
on the banks of a neverfailing stream,
| irrigation must be considered Of doubt
full economy. Practiced on small scale
for the purpose of supplying water to a
few acres of some fodder crops, it may
be made to pay. 1t must be remembered
| that even in the far West, where irriga-
ton is the soul of successful agriculture,
| it is only possible when an entire com.
| munity can combine to defray the ex-
penses. It is probable that there are many
! locations in the East and Middle West
where fifty or more farmers could COM
bine to secure supply of water ample
for their forage crops at least. In most
cases the expense of pumping and lifting
| the water into tanks and reservoirs will
be heaviest. The next twenty-five years
will witness the invention of machines
for developing and storing power that
will vastly reduce this expense.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
His LavatOry.
Detroit Free Press.

"Have you bawth- room in the house?"
asked Boston guest of Western land
lord.
ga what?"
A bawth room, a-a-lavatory."
BLAMED if know what you're driving
at"
"He wants to clean up" said by
stander, better versed in polite language.
cav, that's it," said the landlord
you'd ort to of said go at first; come
along with me-"
And he led the man from Boston out
into the backyard, where there was a
rusty tin pan and pail of "roily" water
on the stump of a butternut tree.
"There ye air." he said proudly; "splash
away all yer mind to. I'll send the
towel out soon as them folks upstairs is
done with it. Pitch in; there amt no
extry charge for the lavatory, as you
call it and there's bucket of soft soap
on that bench. Use all yer mind to of
If
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
PERSONAL CHIT CHAT.

Robert Garrett, who has left Denver
for San Francisco, is rapidly regaining
his health.
A patchwork quilt made by children
In the United States, and an Indian
shawl, the gift of Queen Victoria, were
buried with Jenny Lind at her request.
Prof. Bell Is perfecting machine for
talking to deaf mutes.
Lolita proposes to found an asylum for
children at cost of 100000 when she
leaves the stage.
George Gould is cited as Authority for
the assertion that Jay Gould will be in
New York again within ninety days.
General Grants widow visits the torab
at Riverside Park every Sunday. Thanks
giving day she placed flowers on the
casket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
THE FATE OF PATAGONIA.

| No Longer Entitled to a Geographical Name
The Massacre of Natives
There used to be place called Pata-
| gonna. 1t appears on our biographies
now, says writer in Harper's Magazine,
as "a drear and uninhabitabIe waste upon
which herds of wild horses and cattle
| craze, that are hunted for their flesh by q
few bands of savage Indians of immense
| stature" I am quoting from a school
| book published in 1886 and in common
use in this country. The same geography
gives similar information about ssthe
Argentine confederation" It would be
/ just as polite and proper to call this the
confederate States of America" A bit
ter, bloody war was fought to wipe that
| name off the map, but our publishers still
insist upon keeping it there. It is not
confederation; it is nation with a big
an" like ours,-one and inseparable
united we stand, divided we fall, and all
that sort of thing, Argentine Repub-
lie. To call it anything else is an insult
to the patriots who fought to make it so,
and reflection upon our own intelligence.
Several years ago Patagonia was di-
vided between Chilli and the Argentine
Republi. :, the ministers from the United
States to those two countries doing the
carving. The SUBMITS of the Cordilleries
were fixed as the boundary lines. Chilli
took the Strait of Magellan and the strip
along the Pacific coast between the
mountains and the sea, and the Argentine
Republic the pampas, the archipelago of
TERRA del Fuego being divided between
them. Since the partitian ranchmen
have been pushing southwark with great
ra pidity, and now the vast territory is
practically occupied. There are no more
wild cattle or horses there than Ia Kansas
and the dreary, uninhabited wastes of
Patagonia have gone into oblivion with
the ''Great American DESERT"
Tht remnant of a vast tribe of abort
g1nes still occupies the interior, but the
Indian problem of the Argentine Repub-
lie was solved In summary way. There
was considerable annoyance on the from
tier from bands of rowing savages, who
used to come north in the winter time,
steal cattle, rob and ravish, and the out.
posts of civilization were not safe. Gen.
Roca, the Sheridan of the River Plate,
was sent with brigade of cavalry to the
frontier to prevent this sort of thing.
East and west across the territory runs
the Rio Negro, swift, turbid stream like
the Missouri, with high banks. Fifty
miles or so from the mountains the river
makes turn in its course, and leaves
narrow pathway through which every
thing that enters or leaves Patagonia by
land must go. Across this pass of fifty
miles Gen. Roca dug ditch twelve feet
deep and fifteen feet wide. The Indians,
to the number of several thousand, were
north when the work was done, raiding
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
III the Heart of the Sugar Country.
Harper'S Magazine

As early as 1910, Breckenridge and
Schultz, making journeys from Canada
to the Gulf, noticed and wrote of the
beauty of Bayou La Fourche and Its
shores, although, as the land was then
owned by French and Spanish paysans, it
was not guarded by proper levees, and
foundations occurred almost yearly. OPP
ulent creole planters, however soon
bought up the grounds of the petis in
habitants, and the result is the immense
estates which now line the shores of the
Upper La Fourche like beautiful pan
Drama. Not even small New England
farm can surpass in order and method
great sugar plantation. The levees run
along either side of the bayou-green
ramparts covered with fern, smilax, wild
roses and purple flags. Back of them
and lower than the stream at high tide,
lies the ground, absolutely fat, hundreds
of acres often Enclosed in single field,
the whole scanned by the pillow with math-
ematical precision, and covered in the
spring with delicate lines of feathery
green. At one end of the plantation
stands the engine house and works of
substantial brick; at the other, the dwell
ling of the planter, usually an airy, We
randed structure, more or less in need of
paint, but covered with such splendor of
crimson and golden roses, and so hedged
In by orange groves and sloping lawns
and gigantic oaks hung with curtains of
moss and wealth of brilliant flowers, that
each gay wooden house might put forth
its claims to be the tabled dwelling of
Selim In the valley of Cashmere.
The old clergyman found his lazy voy-
ages up these bayous full of picturesque
surprises. When the boat stopped at the
landing of plantation, whether early in
the morning, or at noon, or in the clear,
yellow sunset, there was horde of half
naked black boys, half In and half out of
the water, or gray-haired old negro
waiting for packages for ode house," or
the planter, high-featured and swarthy,
surrounded by children and dogs, watch
ing, as eager as they, for the good for
tune of an unexpected guest; or perhaps
he would catch glimpse in the grove
near the levees of group of olive
skinned, viyacious creole women, or of
American girls, shyer of glance and
slower of tongue than their northern sis
tiers.
Thibodeaux, the capital of La Fourche
parish, is typical Louisianian town, with
the usual excess of beauty in the gardens,
mud and pitfalls In the streets, and
Astounding hospitality of soul in the peo-
pie. There is much solid wealth in this
parish, which is the center of the large
suger plantations of the state. The
shores of the Bayou Plabuemine resemble
those of La FOurche. The soil is excep-
tionally rich. The estates have been for
the most part in the same families for
generations. When the Mississippi is
gorged, its waters rush through this out
let with force equal to that of the st.
Lawrence below Niagara. 1t overfows
into the Atchfalaya, or the Old river, as it
tradition that it was. ages ago, the Miss
issippi itself.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
WE LA REPUBLICS.
N. Sadi- CarnOt Elected President of
the Republic by the Legisla-
tive Congress.
Ferry and Freycinet Withdraw in His
Favor, and He Receives GIG
Votes.
At Versailles.

VERSAILLES, Dec. 5.-The first trial bal
lot by the Senators and Deputies of the
Left for the Presidency, at Versailles, re-
suited as follows: Ferry, 200; De Freyci-
net, lob; BrissoD, 81; Sadi- Carnot, 50;
General Saussier, 7.
During the taking of the first ballot M.
Pelletan made an address to number of
deputies who congregated outside the
chamber, advocating the election of NJ.
Sadi- Carnot, thereby uniting all the re-
publican votes.
Several deputies rejoined that it would
be the first time the majority had lower
ed to the will of the minority, and added
that the attitude of M. M. Brisson and
Sadl-CarnOt was unworthy of Republi-
cans: They urged them to withdraw in
favor of M. de Freycinet, who after M.
Ferry, had obtained the most votes.
The second trial-ballot resulted as fol-
lows: Ferry, ZIG; De Freycinet, 1876;
Brlsson, rs, and Sadi-Carnot, 81.
On the third trial ballot sos Republi-
can Senators and deputies of the Left
voted. The vote stood: Ferry, 179;
Sad1 -Carnot, 1852; De Freycinet, 100; Bris-
son, so, scattering, 3.
Ihe fourth trial ballot resulted as fol-
lows: M. SadiCarnot, 1856; NJ. Ferry, 35;
M. De Freycinet, %; M. Brisson, 10.
Only 253 Senators and deputies voted.
THE CONGRESS.
The congress of Senators and Deputies
to elect successor to President Grevy
was opened at O'Clock by M. lie Boyer,
President of the Senate, who declared
that the National Assembly was duly con-
stituted to elect president.
IS Deputy Michelin, an irreconcillable,
asked leave to make a motion, but the
President refused to allow him to do so,
declaring that the Assembly was an cleo
toral college.
N. Paul de Cassagnac observed that the
Assembly was sovereign.
M. Gautier contested the competency
of the President to limit the Assembly's
rights. President lie Roger replied: 81
take my stand on the constitution. NJ.
Michelin wished to propose to revise the
constitution"
The President again declined to allow
M. Michelin's proposal to be made, and
the latter entered a protest. The matter
was then dropped.
The result of the first ballot taken in
the congress was:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08

Before the second ballot was taken the
msmbers of the Left groups held a meet
ing. M. Ferry announced his resolution
to withdraw in favor of M. Sadi-C arnot
and M. DeFreycinet rendered similar
notification. An order of the day was
thereupon adopted, declaring that the
party recorded these patriotic acts OF
withdrawal, and at M. Ferry's instance re-
| solved to vote for M. Sadi-Cornot. The
result was seen in the final ballot. M. lie
Roger. on receiving the ballot return
said:
IN. SadiCarnot having obtained the
suffrage, proclaim him President of the
Republic"
There was an outburst of cheers. %.
pecially from the Left and Center. M
LeROyer then declared the session closed
sADI-CARNOT RETURNS THANKS.
The newly-elected president responded
as follows:
81 thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the congratulations and senti-
ments expressed. I am filled with graft
tude to the members of the assembly who,
In uniting their SURFACES in my favor,
bore witness to the desire for peace and
concord with which republican France is
| animated. My dearest wish is that this
great day may remain present in all
minds and hearts. It signifies that the
representatives of France can be united.
Their common efforts can and must Sc
cure the constitution, assuring an active
and stable working government, capa-
BILE of bestOwing upon the nation liberty
at home and dignity abroad, with all the
benefits which our country expects from
the republic. Once more l thank you.
You may count upon my entire DEVOTION %
MARIE FRANCOIS sAp1- CIRNor.
Marie Francois SadI- Carrot, the New
President of France, is of distinguished
family. Lazare Nicolas Carnot figured
as one of the most cons picious figures of
the revolution of 1892. He was mem
Der of the National Convention, a mem
Der of the Committee of Safety, and was
the War Minister of the Republic during
the period when many victories were
won. Though an ardent Republicans, he
Was neither Jacobin or Girondist, and
when named Is a member of the Direc-
tory In 1877 was accused of being Roy
alist. He was recalled to Office by Bona
parte, but not approving the ambitious
schemes of the First Consul he retired to
private life. During the hundred days
he was BonaParte's Minister of the inter
Tor. He died in 1923.
Layare Hippolyte Carnot, son of the
preceding, was born in 1901. In 1889,
1912 and 1916 he was Radical member
of the Chamber of Deputies. After the
revolution of 1913 he was Minister OF Pub
lie Instructor. In 1880 he was member
of the Assembly. In 1852 and 1857 he
was elected member Of the Corps Leg
islative, but refused to serve. Elected in
1868 he took his seat, but in 1869 he was
defeated by GamEetta. After the reveu-
tion of 1870 he was elected to the Nation
al Assembly, and in 1875 he was elected
Senator for life.
M. Sadi-Carnot, who was yesterday
elected President, was born In 1887. He
was Under Secretary of Public Woke
under De Freycinet in 1878, Minister of
Public Works under Ferry in 1880, Minis
ter of Finance in 1882, ard was again
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
KILLED THREE WIVES IN SUCCESSION.
The Shocking Death Bed Confession of South
Carolina Suicide.

COLUMBIA. S. c., Nov. 29.-Ten days
ago Stepnay Bailey, of Barley, killed
his wife, cremated her, and attempted
suicide. He has since died of his wounds,
but before becoming unconscious he
made confession of other murders COM
mitted by him. The substance of his
confession is: II have been married
three times. I killed my first wife with
club. Her name was Catherine. 1 bur-
led her in the garden. My second wife's
name was Mary. I killed her with a brick
by hitting her in the head. will not tell
you what did with her body. My third
wife's name was Sallie. She was I'M
faithful to me. One day L hit her in the
head with an axe and killed her. I put
her body in furnace" The previous
butcheries we're known, but it was just
after the war, and such crimes went un-
punished. In making his confession
Bailey evinced no repentance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08

A call has been issued for caucus OF
democratic members of the house to take
place next Saturday evening to select
officers for the next house of represen-
tatives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
RECOMPENSE.
PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL.


A gardener planted hyacinth
In a corner of his ground,
But peony grew before it
And spread her foliage round;
Ascending higher and higher,
Ambitious to prove her strength;
Till the modest little hyaciDth
From view was hidden at length.
But looking up from her prison
Straight up from the walls 50 rren.
A bit of azure above her
By her wistfbl eye is seen
And straightway into her armentS
She weaves the beau FIJI hue,
And matches her bri corolla
With heavens imp ial ue.
Then patiently in her bower there
She waited tbs GROWING day,
When some one, seeing her beauty,
Should bear her in triumph away;
But weary at last grew her spirit,
And she bresthed ont an odorouS sign
FILLING the air with fragrance,
Enchanting the passers by.
VINO exclaimed when they saw the peoay
Spreading her crimson bloom.
"Oh, how lovely your rich flower Is.
And how exquisite the perfumer
linen the hyacinth sighed IN silence,
Breathing her heart on the air.
Strange that her one little honor
Her thrice-blest rival must wear.
But not altogether forgotten
Was the little corner OF ground,
Where the hyacinth bloomed sweetly
Shedding her fragrance +. und,
The gardener who planted he treasure
Remembered the spot wiz re she grew
And gazed with fond admiration
On her blossoms SO tencer and blue.
And up from her narrow prison,
Out IN the world so wide.
He bore her away on her mission
OF decking the brow OF bride;
An nor reserved for the sweetest
And purest of all flowers,
Aud thus was the modest blossom
Repaid for her lonely hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08
Italian Love- Charms.
English illustrated Magazine.


There are some pretty love songs in
Capri. To win a girls heart the lover
must steal hair from her head and tie it
to one of his own. So long as the knot
holds firm his love is returned. This re-
sembles the clean used on the sacred hill
of Monte Verglne, near Naples. There
betrothed pilgrims fasten broom twigs
together with strip of rag, and uatil the
twigs part their love endures. Rags
futter on every bush along the path to
the great sanctuary, and married coup
les often return there to examine their
united twigs. Unmatched pairs probab
ly scorn to renew the pilgrimage. Love-
sick maids and mon mix drop of their
blood in little wine and persuade the
object of their affection to drink it. This
is an infallible love philter. man may
also win girls heart by pricklng her
name upon q fg-leaf, and letting the
wind blow it away.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08

Minister of Finance under De Freycinet
in 1886. He has had the confidence of all
groups OF the Republican party and has
made good record in Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-08

Congressman Scott, according to the
on Wall street.